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This is a hardware issue. A popluar slution psoted for this is to DL a linux hardware diagnostic distrabution and run that to find out what your hardware error is, try checking you got all the cablels connected properly, for example of you are using IDE drives make sure the red lin on the cable is matched to pin 1 on the HDD of CDROM. or jsut unplaug one of your cdroms, and see if onw of those is causing the error, you could also of configured the msaters and slaves wrong, if your divces have jumper settings make sure you dont have to slaves or to master connect with the same cable, you may aslo have to configure this in the bios.

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